A dozen lives

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“How do we move forward and reinvent ourselves when our very selves have been so shaken? For starters, we must reframe the questions, abandoning the conventional career-advice queries—“Who am I?”—in favor of more open-ended alternatives—“Among the many possible selves that I might become, which is most intriguing to me now? Which is easiest to test... See more

Narrative Aircover & Compound Narrative

Engaging in this quest became far easier for me when I decoupled the idea of "work" from the idea of a "job." Without this constraint, I can take my work more seriously and less seriously at the same time. I can both prioritize the work that matters to me and remain detached from what that work says about me as a person. If I ha

Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition

But many of us evolve so much over a lifetime that we don’t want to keep doing the same thing for decades on end. Or anything close to it. So rather than one 80-something-year lifespan, our money has perhaps four distinct 20-year blocks.

Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

Work Model #4. The Sequential Approach: diving into one field for several years and eventually switching gears to begin a new career in a different field.

Emilie Wapnick • 3 Things I Didn’t Have Time to Say in My TED Talk

Early in my career, I was also the guy who kept up with ten different industries so I wouldn’t have to define myself by any single one of them. But recently, my values have started to change. I now want multi-decade friendships and a professional life where I can build things that compound in value at an exponential rate; I want a place I call home... See more

perell.com • Hugging the X-Axis - David Perell

People love to ask what you do for work and understand your professional trajectory. Often, it’s a surface question. Or, used to quickly categorize people in familiar boxes. But beneath this lies a far more interesting story.  I don’t think you can truly answer questions about work without exploring ambition and identity. Looking back over the... See more

Sam Sager • Work, Ambition, and Identity

But if you think about your career from the perspective of which skills you have developed and where else they might be applicable, you’ll realize that opportunities are near-infinite . Journalists can become investors. Corporate executives can become authors. Even in the case of the most rigid disciplines such as law and medicine, nothing is stopp... See more

Jack Raines • No Rules.

That’s the biggest trigger that I have ever experienced. What are you going to do with the rest of your life? What I had to do, I had to start taking some of my own advice. I had been telling people, I had written about it for a very long time, that if you’re doing something that you’re not totally committed to, if you’re doing something that you’r